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Marco Polo
He spent seventeen years at the court of Kublai Khan, returned to Venice, and described a world so different from anything Europeans had seen that most people assumed he was lying.
1254–1324
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1254–1269
Merchant family origins
Marco Polo was born into a merchant family in Venice, where trade and travel shaped his early exposure to distant lands.